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EUEIVOS, y 'iES. 1)0, CLA , IATION. c S r A f s r A, St. o LINIiRS BRltioNa, Knight of the ,a ohn, Chief of Squadron in the Ro y al e~al o f Roy ice- Governor, and Provisional Captain-Ge the Provinces of the ! Rio de la Plata, &C. S:c. " Brave and faithful Inhabitants of Buenos Ayres -- , .Since t h e arrival of the last vessel from Cadiz, rnging advices ofthe late events which have occurred ° , ll t Moth er C ountry, relative to the a bdi cat i on the Crown, executed by our beloved Monarch, I; I4AR LEs IV. and his son, FERDINAND VII. and the 1 41 "al of the wh o l e o f t h e R oya l F am ily to F rance , c° Nider you as anxious to fix your opinion upon ',latter in which your loyalty is so deeply interest- This anxiety must have been greatly increased the arrival of the French Agent, who brought :er various dispatches for this Supreme Govern "l• The clamours of the unthinking have re sleed your a ccre di ted enthusiasm to a state o f irre uti°n• The not i mme di a t e ly declaring to you th el e object of hi s m i ss i on, may, perhaps, have appear • wi t . ° You a wa n t o f con fid ence very contrary to t h a t h itc' Place in you, a n d which your patriotism has m .o eri . t e d . But w hil st you were emp l o y e d i n idl e t st n i e° °res, the Fathers of the Country, your Magi- • J it es, and t h e Ch ief who has repeate dl y condud "(l to glorious triumphs, were incessantly occu pied in Ch arao devi sing the best means for maintaining your er, interest and tranquillity. FP° in an examination of the contents of all the Fren c h dis patches' i t appears, that the Emperor of the Itllit . has been compelled to recognize the abso also Independence of the Spanish Monarchy, and r etai th ,at of all its trans-marine possessions, without ' bi n dismembering the minutest portion of I ts do . g o ur Minions; and to maintain the unity of religion, th e frnperties, laws, and usages, which guarantee f a ; lu ture prosperity of the nation •; and though the cd - , 131. the Monarchy was not entirely decided, the utt-es were summoned to meet at Bayonne on the a n d' °f June last, whither the Deputies of cities, to ti °tile r Persons of rank in Spain, were repairing, le,„h'inther of one hundred and fifty. in s ' l4 Imperial and Royal Majesty, after applaud tiiai t r i umphs and constancy, exhorts you to nta in with energy t h e high, opinion which you ➢0 have ac o quired by your valour and loyalty, offering and at the same time succours of every description ; th e I have not h es i tate d, to assure hi m in reply, that ell fidelity of this city to its lawful Sovereign is the sli:i t i at „,.. er Which chiefly distinguishes it, and that I Thankfully admit every description of aid, con lutitn.a. of arms, ammunition, and Spanish troops. , trib u i4le s so calamitous, nothing can so much con sentite t 3 Your security as union and coincidence of li aDr) " e llt on a p o i n t so interesting to the -public to r i me r. Let us imitate the example of our ances aSt.;n:ttuis happy land, who wisely escaped the dis sios that affiided Spain in the war of the Succes obrel3 by Waiting the 'fate of the mother country, to so v rt he ligitimate authority which occupied the er evgntv c, anti 41 eanwhile, not possessing orders sufficiently th I : ri tative, to . countermand the Royal Cedulas of o u ! i ' ll Prerne Council of the Indies for proclaiming . 41(ing the oaths 'to Don VIODINAND VII. as 'announced in my Proclamation of the 31st tb .Y ) I have resolved that those measures shall be .7 tc ketaed in with the forms and 'solemnities already te e * 'Upon, flattering myself that in the midst of , ( , ,i oe blie'rejoicings . and . happiness, we shall prepare new tritamphs.- the commithicate this by .special 'Couriers, to all ad ot W i e ails of Provinces On this, Continent, that by gr e ;,:l. 'one uniform 'system, they may make the gr eater efforts to facilitate the succours necessary to itsrvethe glory acquired by a city, which, from Ivie c i , al 'situation., and its energy, has been, , and . B,,,Z 6 ntirtue to be, the . impregnable bulwark of America. not I cannot conclude without k t ,„ l `"sging upon yoti, and .yourselves cannot but '6 u (,.• it, that no 'f orce is cOpipara bl e to union of prretemrvheand 'feeling, nor any means more effedive to • beo vee i Yon invincible, than reciproCal confidence 'atte r] . n m Y ° n and the Constituted Authorities, who, 'see 1 .,, t.°111 Y - to thepublic interest and benefit, will ith d issatisfadion. and - abhorrence everY thing p er il P °s ft'orseparates itself frorn the general pros . SANTAGO LINIERS." Buenos ;l ug. 15, 180 s. :, • _ ROYAL FAMILY OF SPA MY. Flo vs T MIMOR IA t which the Representatives of the Royal 16 0N 4 tef Spain, Donna CAR.LOTA lUAQUINA DE 13 , 01 JR• Princess of Portugal anti the Brazils, and Don I Spain. • d c A , k k . 4VIS DE B9D it 110 N Y BR A Get y.4,Z , Infant of Spain.. Ptl i P4l to his Royal highness the PR: •Pte u 4 Kal, that he may deign to attend to, pros and to tlj A 4 , 4 the,acrett rights which their August houie has • Ailp - e 'uhrone of Spain and the Indies, which Throne the , ntill e i;' ) rof the French, by means of an abdication or viol e "'t , on executed under the most atrocious and detestable 1) 04 . r . 1 .,,ce,' has recently torn from the hands of the IN. , of ••ititt.o s IV. and their Royal Highnesses the I rince Aig it .r,, irru ic, R A , s, :and the. Infants Don CA XLOS and Don ie :` The rn 1 1 e le iancno l y accounts' received from Spain, taletlg—tl occupation of the-Capital 'and princi 7 r ts- b y t he French, the declared enemies of the _ow n of Portu gal duct to that of and not less hostile in their . con- S. , l ;n, deeply afflia ; inasmuch I f 3 ; t 7 e /, at " 113 tno t n ‘ lent, foresee the slavery of the s a-l 'ul and generous Spanish nation, and the , con equent ruin of the Throne of our ancestors. ;" The 'irregular conduct of the Emperor of the Tench, mid the u n j us t procee di ngs of h i s Generals 41 4 ' other Mi n i sters, l ong since afforded its abundant s?lives to m an if est t h ose j ust feelings of resentment eit!b, a t th e t i me, we thokight proper to stile iu , s el ice; considerin tr that 'the aid of our-voice was erasehet necessary to aisplay the reason and justice of our 4u se, out rage d b y the despotism of an alwlute and' , power : but now that we are apprized of 4perfidy with whi c h, un d er t h e pretext of a "uIY confer ence , t h e Ki ng, t h e h ea d of our W °4B e, and the b ranc h es o f our f am il y i n Spain, Fre persuaded to trust their persons in the hands t who m enace d t h e i r r i g h ts, ours, and those he.. all im the subjeet s o f t h e Ki ng o f S pain—a perf i dy a b a . l "rh they were forced to sign formal acts of out iPat ion and r enu n c i at i on, and individually carried o f the kingdom,.to b e confined - in places already 11 01 1 1 .(1 , w ith the blood o f o th e r b ranc h es o f our I ! I. : filled with horror at such proceed "f 've fnitik it our duty to implore the assistance c3 ii ..Y`',." Royal Highness, as our immediate natural ~g ain and .ProteEtor ; intreating - youe - assistance flst the propagation of this system of usurpation, which swallows up all the States of Europe one after another ; and soliciting your Royal Highness's 'in terposition in favour of our House, that by yoor power and influence you may place us in a condition (as the nearest relatives of the King of Spain) to he able to preserve his rights, and stoutly Ri secure our own, by a junaion of the Portuguese, Spani,b, and English forces, in order to prevent the Frei 'b from effeeling, by means of their armies, the snie a&s of violence and subversion which they - have committed over almost the whole extent of Europe. " Your Royal Highness, in consideration of the state and condition in which our august Father and Uncle, with the rest of the family of our august House of Spain, cannot but approve of this our pro ceeding—a proceeding grounded on the fundamental principles and laws of the Spanish Monarchy, from which we will never detach ourselves—a proceeding justified by the incontrovertible principles of divine and natural justice; and as such we expea that it will merit the approbation of our beloved Uncle the King of the Two Sicilies, that of his Royal Faruily,, and that of all those personages who are chieflyin•- terested therein. This proceeding we also consider as a measure expected by the members of our un happy and unfortunate family, now in a state of constraint and oppression, removed front their kingdom, and, what is assuredly the most pain ful, torn from the bosom of their tenderly be loved subje6ts, the faithful, constant, and generous Spaniards. " Such is the view of things which our dearly beloved cousins and uncle, the Prince of ASTURIAS and the Infants Don CARLOS and Dun ANTONIO, wished to convey to us, when, after describing the entrance of the French troops, and their superiority of numbers, they thus proceed : In this state of things, their Royal Highnclses, refleting on the situation in which they stand, and also the delicate circumstances wherein Spain is placed, considering that in a crisis of such ditliCulty, any attempt, 'on the part of the Spanish people, to retrieve their rights, would he pregnant rather with ruin than advantage, and could have no other result than that of producing torrents of bloodshed, and occasioning the certain loss of at least a great part of their Provinces, and the whole of their trans marine Colonies.' ", This stile of expression appears to offer evident proofs, first of the violence exercised towards the Princes to make them write,' but without permitting them to write all that they might wish, in order to manifest their real sentiments; secondly, that per haps, if Spain were not so. circumstanced and occu pied by a hostile army, they themselves would not think it useless in the inhabitants to 'make an at tempt to recover their rights; thirdly, that if ,the trai+smarine Colonies were reduced to a similar situa tion, they would be completely lost. And in these expressions we discover a tacit but very obvious in sinuation, addressed by them to us and their most faithful countrymen still in a state of freedom, that we should all of us, with one consent, contribute to the defence and preservation of their rights. We are, therefore, firmly persuaded that this opinion will meet with the concurrence of our uncles in Sicily, and also that of all the other Mem bers of our Royal 'Family, and all our fellow-coun trymen who are free and at a distance from such in sults and oppressions • Rome, the depositary of our holy religion, is once more insulted and in subjetlion to this arbitrary Power, the common disturber of .Europe. It vain doe's his Holiness protest against the exile of the Most Eminent the Cardinals : in vain does he enjoin them not to stir until they are compelled by violence. He has no tecotlise but to complaints and lamenta tions, as we perceive from his Note signed by the Most. Eminent the Cardinal DORIA, says,- ' that such proceedings are manifestly directed to the - subversion and destruction of the power of the 'Clutrch.' " We are happy in being on this side of the At-: lantie, inasmuch as we are neither subje&ed nor in a condition of being subjeaed, if, banishing from tr's alI partv-spiiit, we cultivate that nerfea union and alliance, which, in proportion as they identify 'Oar feelings, will also consolidate our resources, which 'are sufficient for the formation of a respeffible force, folly adequate of itself to resist and repel any invasion, and to secure our "interests, our liberty, and our lives, against the aMbition of France. ." We cannot, for an instant, entertain a doubt of 'the loyalty and atpaiOn which, at all times, the in habitants Of the Ainericas haVe manifested towards 'our august House, and most particUlarly towards our dearly belOVed Father, for whom they have so re 'cently sacrificed their lives and properties, and given the highest proOfs - of their loyalty. Under this impression, and convinced that the , misfortunes of our family will and their hearts with , greet, which have ever 'taken an interest in the pre servation of our rights,, we trust that by means or. 'the influence and assistance of your Royal Highness, a perfe& alliance . may be effected with . the American" subjeas of 'the King of SPAIN, by which we shall . easily be enabled to secure ourselves froth the attacks of the enemy; while,.by a measure so just and sa lutary, we shall also destroy the seeds of those fa-` ; mily quarrels which incessantly arise between the Subjecls of the two kingdoms, and - which always produce consequences to be lamented. With a yiew to the realization of our jnst and salutary intentions, we are desirous of having a secure opportunity, to ,communicate them to the Governors, Tribunals, and other personages, being the lawful depositaries of the authority of our King and Master, which we in no respect wish to alter or abridge, but, ' on the contrary, are anxious to preserve and defend it against the power of the French. For this pur pose, we trust that your Royal Highness will inter est yourself with the Admiral of our great :;!! 1 pow erful Ally, the King of GREAT BRITAIN, that h© may dispose of his force so, that, without impairing the defence of yottr Royal Highness on the coast of the BraZik, it may also contribute to that of the coasts of the River Plate, and the other dotunion.sof , Spanish America, and that it may in no a:sped be prejudicial to the navigation and commerce which the inhabitants of those dominions carry on with this and other ports of this principality. This pro ' teotion, we have no . doubt, will be immediately aflOrclt.-.(1 to us by the generosity and noble charae:ter of the King of GREAT BRITAIN and his powerful Nat ion. " We conclude with intreating - that your Royal Highness may be pleased to place at ourdisposal all the necessary means fur communicating our linen tion to the Governors, c;viland Ecclesiastical Au thorilios, in whom resides in lull vigour and force the authority of our augu4 Kirk and Master, and to whose lovaitv are consigned the rights of our Royal House ; which we are anxic.ts to preserve inviolable during the cOlitinuance of the misfortunes with French' ambition has oppressed our Royal Family of Spain. (Signed) " The Princes Doua CARLOTA JUAOUINA. DR BOURBON. " The Infant Don PEDRO CARLOS DE BOURLON 1 BRAGANZA." " Palace of Rio laneiro, 'Aug. 19, 1 808 " COURT OF INQUIRY. SIXTH DAY, THURSDAY, NOV. The Judge Advocate stated, that application had been made to the Otlice of the Secretary of State for the War Department, respecting the Letter stated to have been written by Sir ARTHUR WELLES - LEY to the Bishop of Oporto, and that no such docu ment was to be found there. Sir HEW DALRYMPLE obserVed, that'the Letter was only important as showing the different views which the Bishop of Oporto had of the Cohvention at different periods. The JUDGE ADV6CATE then read the observations made by Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY upon the slate merit of Sir H. DALRYMPLE, and which we gave yes terday. Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY signified hiy intention of examining Colonel : Tvolua: and Colonel Ton-- RENs, the latter of whom was called in and ex amined. • Sir A. WEitistEy:---Does Colonel . lORRENS re coiled that I had a conversation with him in the evening of the 22d or mornin; of the 23d ofAugu st, respeaing my signing the Armistice . • Colonel TottaiNs.-LAt d:lrlight, on the morning of the 23d of August,-Sir A.. WELLESLEY mentioned , to me the occurrences of the evening before, and , said he had signed the armistice by the desire of Sir HEW DALRYMPLE ) though he totally - disapproved of many points iu it, and of. the • tone of language in which it was drawn up.'. ' Sir ARTHUR.—Did I . state what pert of it I disap proved of • Colonel T.—Sir ARTHUR stated, that he disap proved of the article which provided for the Den frailty of the Russians, and of the 4 hours which had been given to the enemy, froni the terminatinn of the armistice, before hostilities shot ls:I again commence. Sir AitTHUß.—Does Colonel TprtßEss recoll.ea my having expressed to him great oneaiiness on the 22d at finding that I did not pOssesS the confidence of the CoMmander in Chief:. • Colonel T.-1 da recollaa that. Sir A; WELLRS LEY, did express, after he had a meeting with the" Commander of the Forces, upon his landing at Maciera, that he had to regret that it was ap— parent that he had not the confidence of the Com mander of the Forces, or words to that etfecl. SUfI-OFJ'ICE, THREE O'CLOCK, P. M. , . . . , , - We . stop the'Presslo add the following particulars to our detail of the proceedings of the Court of In-' quirythis day : • Sir ARu4.—Did I state to Colonel TottaE my reasons ? Col. Tottazt4s.—Yott did ; Sir ARTHUR -WEL LESLEY told we that upon the landing of Sir HEM✓ DALRYMPLE he had gone to him' to represent to him" the,necessity of an advanze, and he stated his reasons for thinking it' necessary. Sir H E‘v DALRYMPLE replied, that he had just arrived, and was con sequently unable to form any judgment on the matter. Upon which an Otl'icer of the Staff spoke apart with Sir HEW DALRYMPLE . , and the❑ 'followed Sir A. WELLESLEY, and told him it was the desire of the Commander of the Forces that he should make preparations for the march of the army, and give what orders be thought 'necessary for it. - • • Sir ARTIIUR.—Was not the Officer of the Staff Colonel MURRAY ? Colonel TORRENS.—Ii was Colonel MURRAY. Sir ARTHUR.—Doe s Colonel TORRENS recollect that I told him Colonel MURRAY had spoken to the Coniniander of 'the Forces, upon the necessity of marthirtg; in consequence of my having -urged that necessity. to Colonel MITIIIC“,Ofter the Commander of the forces liad declined . to at tend to my represent ation ? COLONEL TORRENi.= , —I certainly di l understand froM Sir ARTHUR WELLE,ILEY, that COW:1;d MUk6- RAY had urged the necessity of advance to the Com manderof the forces in consequence of having had • a conference with Colonel :qua an v on the Sithjea'; bttt I cannot recall to my recollelion; whether or not Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY told Me that he had this conference with Colonel JNlUtift AY atter he had urged The matter to the Commander of the •Foraes. Capt. MALcor...m, of the Di.neeal, was then called in and examined by Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY. Str ARTHUR.—Does Capt. MALCO'LM recollea my interview with the Commander in Chief, Sir HEW DALRYMPLE, on the morning of the 25th August ? Capt. MALCOLM.—I do. Sir ARTHUR.—DO you recollea my lining recom mended to the Commander in Chief to allow General JuNoor to terminate the suspension of hostilities in 48 hours, without reference to the details which he had received containing the sentiments of the Admiral, respecting the Article in the Armistice which re garded the Russians, and to give leave to'General JUNOT to renew the negotiation if he thought pro per ? Capt.' MALcm.m.—On our going in, Sir Him DALRYMPLE informed Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY, that the Admiral would not agree 4 to that part of the Armistice which regarded the Itossian Fleet. Sir ARTHUR replied, that he thought so. Sir HEW then asked Sir ARTHUR his opinions of what steps should be taken so as to inform General JUNOT, in general terms, that the Admiral disapproved of the armistice, and that he saw no neces.,ityto point at the particular articles which he disapproved, and pi-oliosed that General JuNOT should be told that the suspension was at an end in 48 hours as agreed in the Treaty, leaving it to General Jutior 10 propose terms again if he thought : proper. Captain MALCOLM then withdaew. -AMERICA. BRImrIELD TOWN MEETING. NE SEPT. 17.—0 n the 29th ult. the in-_ hitants Of Brimfield, its this State, being_duly no tified, assembled to take into consid,:ration the ex pedience of, petitioning the Pre,ident of the. United States to remove the Embargo, in whole or in part, or to convene Conctress with, that view, if his po‘kers were deemed incompetent. On this occa: , ion Gen. Eaton addressed all fellokc townsmen in the fol. lowing Speech, which wit, Jegaested for publicxcion by vote of the tOwn. RENIAREIS BY GEN. EATON. . . . " In the address of the inhabitants of the town of Boston to the President of the Unitei States, and now offered in this town for concurrence, we see r.othing unconstitutioual nor disrespeafal. Its objet, if attainable, is essentially important to the commercial and agricultural interests of this country; and not less necessary to our revenue. ,Indeed the distress and misery occasioned among all clas,es of our fellow-citizens by the Embargo, this negative measure of coercion, are of themseives sufficient to justify this appeal for relief. . . "It is hardly necessary at this,. moment, .minutely to investigate the causes or :the motives m inch in duced the Embargo. AdMit, what cannot be de nied, that the interdiaions upon our comirierce by Belligerents, ift hey could have been enfOrced, would have nearly excluded us from the ocean—that by both parties we have been outraged—plundered and insulted by both—and against both had sufficient cause of war; it does not follow, from any thing that appears.to us, that the position we have taken to meet these aggressions has produced any relaxa .tion of the restraints imposed on us as a neutn 1 nation, por amelioration of our sufferings. , - " A season, as it relates to commerce, has elapsed, since the imposition of the Embargo; the experi ment - - has neither procured "us natipwl honour, mt... tional security, nor domestic, tranquillity : on tl;e .. contrary, in a national and domestic point of view, we safer. from this measure e‘ery disaster incident 1 to war, except aanal invasion, without any of the 1 possible advautages of war., , For, though we see not or. our phins garments rolled in blood, we see our sea 7 b ,- )ard deserted by a hardy race of our na. 7 tura' defenders, whom starvation his compelled to seek foreign service ; to die. ingloriously, and unla: mented.Though we see, not the ' devastation of plundering armies, we feel our wealth diminishing to a death-bed consumption 'for want of aaion—corn merce annihilated—industry discouraged- -the. heart yf enterprize broken—and a species ofiazaroni be. ginning to crowd our porches with no other claim on our, charity than, wcint of employm . -nt! And though we dp not indeed weep the misfortunes of our, flag for defeated squadrons and armies, we blush its 7 fallen glory, as the efreas of a pusillani= mods speculation on events, much more dishonour able than manly defeat. " It is believed no real American will deny that both France and England have given us sufficient provocation to war. Not to mention the captures, detentions, condemnations, burnings, and sinkings of our ships and merchandize by det r2es of Napo leon the .First ;. not to mention his insole! c at our Court; I4s fraudulent sale to, honest purchasers of the . unl•ounded Lortisiana, and . his subsequent inter ference in behalf of the claims of Spain to the very territory he sold us, should have been enough to raise the resentment of this whole nation. That transa6tion always reminds one of an upstart who once offered our Saviour all the kingdoms of the earth on condition of his homage—the Devil was rebuked 2 —Buonaparte succeeded better with a sub- jed. Both had an equal right to the kingdom they •proposed to barter for homage., But all the violations of our rights, on the part of the Corsican, are silently and tamely endured, and'the edge of resentment, under his patronage, is solely pointed to England. It can no longer be con cealed, that the embargo was intended for the Bri tish nation, and for her alone; else why do her ships of war continue to be excluded from our ports, and those of her enemy admitted to indulgences which are denied to our own citizens ? It is believed that the Embargo was contemplated as a war measure; and meant, by sortie leading charaders of our ad• ministration, to produce that effeEt. Indeed I do not hesitate to assert, that war with England has been a matter of calculation with the Chief Magistrate of the United States. :Else why have all his Messengers left their Dispatches id; France; and to amuse our confidence, gone in blank to England ? Else why do we. see so many posts ; of trust and honour filled with avowed enemies to England, and devoted friends of an Usurper ? . • . " But such an event under existing circumstances, would prove ruinous to our country. Allied, as England now is, with Spain and Portugal the whole boundary line of these United States, both by sea, and land, comprising a circumference' of more than four thousand miles, would become an enemy fron